Selecting Noncontinuous Ranges by Name in an Excel Macro

ID: Q49425

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SUMMARY

To select more than one range in a macro, the ranges can be named and then used in a SELECT statement, as in the following sample macro:


   =ACTIVATE("Sheet2")
   =SELECT("area1,area2,area3")

The cells on Sheet2 have been defined as follows:


   Cell Range    Defined As
   ----------    ----------

   A1 to C3      area1
   D5 to G7      area2
   A9 to G12     area3

The first cell in the first named range is the active cell. In the above example, it is A1.

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Last Reviewed: March 15, 1999